6 September

THE prophet Zachary, who returned in his old
age from Chaldea to his own country, and lies
buried near the prophet Aggeus.—In Hellespont,
St. Onesiphorus, disciple of the Apostles, of whom
St. Paul speaks in his letter to Timothy. He was
severely scourged with St. Porphyry, by order of
the proconsul Adrian, and being dragged by wild
horses, gave up his soul to God.—At Alexandria,
the holy martyrs Faustus, priest, Macarius, and ten
companions, who received the martyr's crown by
being beheaded for the name of Christ, in the time
of the emperor Decius and the governor Valerius.
—In Cappadocia, the holy martyrs Cottidus, deacon,
Eugenius, and their companions.—In Africa, in the
persecution of the Vandals, the holy bishops Donatian, Praesidius, Mansuetus, Germanus, and Fusculus, who were most cruelly scourged and sent into
exile, by order of the Arian king Hunneric, because
they proclaimed the Catholic truth. Among them
was one named Laetus, also a bishop, a courageous
and most learned man, who was burned alive after
a long imprisonment in a loathsome dungeon.—At
Verona, St. Petronius, bishop and confessor.—At
Rome, the holy abbot Eleutherius, a servant of God,
who, according to the testimony of Pope St. Gregory,
raised a dead man to life by his prayers and tears.